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over at oona’s corner of the blogworld, we are having a party-dress-party. please! i will take and and every excuse to pull out my fancy party duds & parade around the room!

my contribution: my birthday dress, of course!
what did you think i was gonna wear? 😉

of course, i already made a giant, extensive post regarding the damn construction on that damn dress – do have a look-see if you want to lurk the inside of the bodice, or pictures of the back, or whatever. i’m not gonna go through that again! instead, i decided to wear it to work today. i work in an office. although we are a little more lenient than most office dress-codes (no suits, jeans on friday, tattooed-with-no-sleeves ok), i’m still preeeeetty sure i can’t bust in wearing a strappy bustier dress with ruffles all over it. i had to tone it down a little!

this angle is all kind of awks; the amazonian height my heels pushed me to (a whopping 5’4″! U GUISE!) means i either lose my head or shoes in a picture. deal with it.

here i am at work!

i just put a form-fitting cardigan over the dress & belted it. easy! and can we talk about how awesome that skirt is? i think i might use the pattern to make *just* the skirt – wouldn’t it be scrumptious in a wool suiting? yes please!

in other sewing news, here’s what i’ve been working on:
more pincushions!

the tomato art festival is in a little over a week (august 13th, yo!) and i am so so so so behind on making stuff for my booth. whoopsie 🙂

although i’ve got a nice stash of pincushions going:

i ran out of stuffing to stuff them with, so i gotta holler at the craft store this weekend.

12 Responses to “birthday dress, revisited”

i love that dress SO MUCH. someday, i need to actually learn how to sew, so that i can make gorgeous things like this! and OMG those pincushions are so beyond cute! i realize i already told you that on lj, but holy smokes, i bet they’re so fun to make/picking the color combinations and accents! ❤ you

thank you! i usually don’t wear yellow bc i’m afraid it will wash me out, but i love the color so much i don’t even care 🙂

the cushions are $10 + $5 s/h. i don’t have these listed in my etsy, but if you want a particular one (or a combination that you don’t see already made up!) let me know and i’ll make a listing for you 🙂

oh. oh. OH. thank you for gracing my party with that awesomeness!!! you’re like a megawatt bulb of happiness in that office setting; and the cardigan pairing is triumphant. i’m off to see the construction post because now, i MUST have one…